AT '.ne COUNTY FAIR. Settin’ in the gran’ stand I At the county fair, Beemed as it the whole world Au' all their kin was there. Way up on the top seat Me an’ Jennie set— Wisht 1 had the candy An' peanuts that we et! Jennie's right good lookin’; But she likes to boss; Pared me to bet money Ou Jake Douglas’ boss. Like a fool T done it; Went down to the track. How d'ye think I found het» ’S I was climbin' buck? There I met her half way, With another beau, Stuck-up, slick-haired softy, That Will Joues, ye kuow. Let on not to see me; Went right on a-past, fl’pose she thought I'd ast her Where she’s goiu’ so fast Warn't no use to fuller, So I let ’em go, Funny how things sometime* All go wrong jes' so. Lost a pile on Jake’s boss; Couldn't ring a cane. Fellow swiped my goldine watch, Then it poured down raiu. Tell ,ve 'tain't all sunshine An’ all "pleasures rare” Settin' in the gran’ stand At the county fair. •“Chicago Record. • THE OLD APPLE TREE • • « WAS disappointed in my friend. We bud arranged to spend the day on the river. I had not met him for years, not since our Balliol days, until I saw him again after seven years at tlie varsity sports in the early spring. Then eight or nine of us. all old Balliol men, dined together, ami we bad a re­ freshing talk over all that had occurred while I was away in Canada. Six years vf it 1 had there, and when 1 returned was surprised to find so much altera­ tion In everything and everybody. But dear old Fry was the same as ever, Stanch and genuine itud generous. When 1 met him in Lombard street, * fortnight before, it was he who had suggested ami settled tile details of our trip on the river. It was to be on June 15, and we were to have had a long, healthy, exhilarating day, with plenty of hard exercise and a long chat about Sid times -old chums that we were. The .lay came and I was In river rig st the boathouse agreed upon half an hour earlier titan we laid mutually fixed. But Fry did not come. The half hour w ent, and anol her, and an­ other. I know of nothing more Irri­ tating than to have to hang about for another fellow to turn up when one Is alone like that. At last, I got a note by Ills servant. If lie had sent a wire, 1 should have had his message sooner, hut old fashioned courtesies still char­ acterize Fry, and lie sent his groom fleven miles with a long note of expla nation and apology. Ills excuse for not coming seemed to me a flimsy one Ills wife's father had fixed a sudden meeting of family trus­ tees, and afterward he had to see his sister on business of consequence re­ lating to a trust. However, whether it was an excuse or whether it was a reason, he was not coming with me for our pro|e. led river trip that was clear; and now Ilia I I knew he was not to Join me. I was content. It was an •frying. and, as I really loved dear old Fry. it was n disappointment. But 1 trust I am too philosophic to feel any­ thing deeply that cannot lie helped. I countermanded the pair skiff and bad •lit a single canoe. In five minutes I was “on the bosom of old Father Thames." The hackneyed words, as 1 thought of them, were in themselves a comfort and as I paddled •n I thought how a guy heart wauts so friend. Solitude has charms deeper than society can afford. Out of my memory teemed troops of friends, and they were with me as I willed. They unit' at my call and vanished ns I wished when thought of another sug­ gested liven Fry himself, with Ills hearty laugh, his loyal, brotherly spirit. Communed with me. and was dispelled again ns a more recent chum who laid tracked many a bear with me iu t'au- ads haunted my memory. I was now in a lovely backwater more beautiful than the Thames Itself. The bankside flowers were more abundant anil nearer to me Indeed, they hedged me nl.out The pale blue eyes of Innu­ merable forget me not* smiled up >u tue, the yellow toad flax grew out of the clay banka, wild roses and brambles bloomed amidst their thorns, the leaves of the osiers whispered everywhere. • ml weeping willows hung their arch­ ing boughs right across the narrow creek which it now pleased me to ex­ plore. The water was clearer, too —wonder­ fully clear It was. 1‘addllug slowly along betweeu the lawns, 1 looked Into the depths of the water, with all Its wealth and wonder of piant growth, the waving forest of submarine weed. I where I could see shoals of mliiuows. I Now and then a school of perch, start Jed by my paddle, darted Into the shad I ow of the weed. ami a huge jack, sulk lug In a deep green ; k > o I. made me loug i for a rial and line Whilst thus engrossed, lien.llng my head over the aide of the canoe. In which 1 continued to drift slowly along. 1 failed to notice bow narrow the creek had become, until suddenly I found my •elf .lose to a lady lying on a lawu— •o close that I was almost touclilug bar. bhe waa quit* at the edge of tba H •«ass. which sloped to the river. Half a dozen cushions were about her—her book lay open, its leaves kissed, as be­ fitted the pages of a poem, by the zeph­ yrs. I had never seen so glorious a picture, uor one that burst ujhiu my vision so suddenly. She was lu some­ thing white and dainty, her hat was hung on a branch, and the old, gnarled tree under whose shade she reclined was covered with apples. Her hair was tangled and golden and her eyes full of light and laughter. For a while 1 sat staring at her io bewilderment. Then 1 stammered, “Where am I?” Her answer was perfectly calm, but it was not chill; no, her voice was so soft that the simplest words she ut­ tered were a melody. “You are in my father's gardeu." she said. “And 1—I---- ?” “You are a trespasser.” But she smiled as she said it. a smile that showed two rows of pearl, spark­ ling in the sunlight that dappled her face. “And you?” I said. I know not what I said, but soon 1 asked her name, aim she told me it was Eve. “And this is Paradise," I answered, looking through the leaves of tlie old upple tree at all the beauties of the garden. Then we talked. Of what? Of every tiling. Of solitude, of friendship, of books; 1 fear, of Canada and of love. Then she hade me go, and I could not. Nor would 1 if 1 could; and when at length 1 obeyed her and was about to go, she hade me stay. So 1 stayed, and soou had moored my canoe and stood upon her lawn. 1 can­ not tell how I of all men modest al­ most to bashfuluess could have done so, but I did. Gf the flowers that grew wild there by the water's edge 1 made her a crown, and this 1 put upon tier tangled golden hair. She was my queen there ami thenceforth forever; ami so I told her, the poet aiding me. Two roses that 1 had not seen before bloomed ou her face, and she ran aw ay, light-footed and lithe of limb, over the lawn into her father's bouse. But 1 could not leave; I could not. I looked for her, but she did not come. Once, I saw the curtains of a window drawn aside mid her face peering out upon me, but she would not come again. Well, I stayed—that was all. How I bad the impudence to do so 1 cannot tell but I could not go. She was a long while indoors. 1 heard her at the piano. 1 knew it was her touch, though 1 had never heard her before, but 1 was confident it was she. Besides, now and then tue piano stopped suddenly. and I saw by the movement of the window curtains that she was peeping to see whether 1 hud gone. At last I grew ashamed of my intru- truslon, and, stooping from under the fruit-covered branches of the old apple tree, 1 went to my canoe, unfastened Its moorings, and was about to with­ draw. But, ns luck would have it, just as I was about to get into the canoe, she came out to me across the lawn. Her gesture to me was that I must go. 1 said what 1 felt, regardless of nil or­ der, of all propriety. "Eve,” 1 said passionately, "you do not know me, nor who I am, nor I you; but I know this, that 1 love you. Yes. 1 love you. and shall love you for ever. Your heart Is my Eden. Do not shut the gates of this, my earthly Paradise. I must, must see you again, and 1 will. Say that I may." She looked down and blushed. "Muy I?” I faltered. Sue diil not reply. But her silence was n better answer than words. "Wheu?" " I'» morrow,” She looked so pretty when she said it that 1 wits about to dare yet more. I had the temerity to formulate tue idea that I would take her In my arms and steal from her lips a kiss when I heard a shout. "Hullo, old chap. Is that you?" I looked up. "What, Fry?" I cried. "Is It Fry? It Is. by all that’s wonderful!" "I'm awfully sorry, my dear chap, that 1 couldn't Join you on the river to­ day. Abomluably uncivil you must have thought me. But 1 didn't know you knew my sister.” lie looked at her and he looked at me. I think we were both blushing. Whether It be unmannerly or not, I confess I was. Aye, I was red to tlie roots of my hair. "But you do know each other, don't you?" lie said, fur we both looked so awkward that lie seemed to think that he had made some faux pas. "Oh. yes'" 1 said, "we know each other.” and I stole a look at Eve. The glance she gave me was a grateful one "Ami we shall know each other bet­ ter.” I whispered to her Inter. "Now that I have discovered you to be your broiher's sister, you bear an added charm lu my eyes." Three months afterward there was a river wedding, and. as we were rowed away from church In a galley manned by four strong oarsmen, and I handed her out of the canopied boat on to her father's lawn, the wedding bells rang out merrily, for Eve and I were mau and wife, and I gave her a husband* ki-s under the old apple tree. Woman as a llatcr. Men are good at revenge tltcv havt so many way* of prompt action but. while she must wait long perhaps, a woman I* the best hater If once wronged. and If Itefore death her day come* Rhe strike*. As long as a man I* of a forgiving dl«tx>*ltlon a woman doesn't ear* whether he pay* his debts or not. A pretty and wealthy young widow I* uevet a miss. PLAN A RUSKIN HALL. 6T. LOUIS TO HAVE ODD COL­ LEGE FOR WORKINGMEN. Will lie Modeled After the Oxford, Euglund, J n»ti tiltion—Place Where American Workluguieu Majr Get Cour.ea of Study at Home, Two enthusiastic young Americans came over here, says a Loudon corre­ spondent, and put their time and mon­ ey luto the establishment of a novel In­ stitution that made a good many con­ servative Englishmen smile. The Eng­ lish workingmen, however, didn’t smile at all, but concluded that the American idea was a good thing, and helped it along. It grew and grew until there was no doubt about Its being a big suc­ cess, and now, oddly enough, English workingmen are raising $20,000 in shil­ lings and pennies to propagate In the United States the Idea that originally camo from there, and incidentally some of the English workingmen are kicking hard because their brethren are doing this thing. The Idea was to establish a working­ men’s college, to which a man might go or from which lie might get courses of study at home. That sounded rather dreamy, like some of the economic Ideas of John Ruskin, in whose name the work was taken up. But It devel­ oped presently that it was not the in- And what are these halls to be like, and how 1* thia monumental scheme to be managed? The beat answer can be had through some account of the pe­ culiar feature* of the Ruskin Hall at Oxford. It is housed in an unpreten­ tious, four-story structure that was at one time the residence of the fifth Duke of Marlborough, and was after­ ward often visited by John Ruskin while a friend of his lived there. It Is just beyoud beautiful old St. John’s College. To any one who visits It after revel­ ing lu all the luxury of the ancient seats of learning scattered all around it, it looks bare indeed. I’iue tables pre­ dominate, and not many of the accoin- panying chairs have backs. Workrooms and bedrooms are furnished in the ut­ most simplicity. They have to be, for the total cost of residence, Including board and lodging. Is $2.50 a week, and the tuition and tutors’ fees are GO cents u week more. Perhaps the queerest feature of the whole thing, and a feature that is to be preserved in the United States, is that every student in the hall is ex­ pected to work two hours a day at cooking, houseeleauing, etc., as no ser­ vants are kept, and there are no women about the place. That is how the cost of residence is kept down to such a low figure. Although housework Is not a part of the curriculum, the men soou become experts at it, and there is a growing suspicion at Ruskin Hall that a iin.ii can scrub a floor more effectively and more economically than a woman. I COMBINATION STREET CAR. States a* head of the movement there. I He 1* • trim, energetic, smooth-faced young man, who talks like an Ameri­ One Which May Be Feed Either tn Summer or Winter# can, although he never aas been in th* The immense cost to street car com- United States. pauies of providing separate cars for summer and winter use has led Franz ELOPEMENT A FAMILY TftAiT. Burger and Henry M. Williams, of Fort Ileac'er. 3 nt* of Cot. George Malinin« Wayne, Ind., to design the car shown >iave Followed Hia ¿Marple* below. The ear is egg shape, and the It is the latest dictum of science thal ribs at the sides ami ends are slotted l 1 acquired traits are not inherited. In on either side, to provide runways for; the case of the Manning family, the | tlie curved sections of wood or metab . disposition of the first member of whom which close tlie car. The roof of thei there is any record must have bet'll, car is of double thickness, with pock-j transmitted and the disposition has led. ets iu line with the ribs, forming exteni to eight, it not nine, elopement— George Manning was hired by Ceu Wheeler, of Steuben County, New York, many years ago to cut dinner. He fell in love with Wheeler’s daughtei ami she loved him, but her aristocratic father would not have it. They elo|s‘d and were married, going Into Warren County, Pennsylvania, then a wilder-, ness. Here Manning became very rich and was a colonel in the war of 1812. One of his daughters loved and was loved by one of Ills workmen named Sawyer. Manning would not consent, so they eloped. Three years later an- ( SUMMER AND WINTER STREET CARS, other daughter eloped anil xvas married to a young doctor, Sullivan, wao be-’ sions of the curved sides. In the cen­ came rich and famous. Dr. Sullivan's ter of the roof are arranged a series of daughter eloped with and w.i - married pulleys, with cables attached to the to a young man who was objectionable upper edges of the sliding sectious, the to her father. Another daughter fell opposite ends of the ropes being wound in love with a young man mid this time, ou a shaft, thus enabling the conductor to prevent an elopement, tlie father to open and close the car by turning a gave his consent. Then the girl eloped crank on the shaft. When the cables with another lover. are unwound the sides will slide down­ ward of their own accord until connec­ tion is made with the floor, the curva­ ture of the sides allowing the passen­ gers to sit close to the ends of the seats without interfering with the work ol altering the ear. PATRIARCHAL LIFE IN BRAZIL. German Colony in Which Condition# Are Primitive and Elysian. OXFORD RUSKIN BALI. IN HOUSEHOLD DRESS. tentlou to make struggling clerks and professional men out of well-paid la­ borers; also, that It was not tha Inten­ tion to give a foolish little smattering of culture, but merely to give working­ men of whatever age or condition such instruction lu history, political econ­ omy, the principles of politics and the principles of labor movements, co-op­ eration and similar things that would be of practical help to them In looking after their own Interests. The result was the establishment of Ruskin Hall nt Oxford. A good deal was said about it at the time, but it was rather generally looked upon as a fad, and then forgottcu except by those who had some persoual interest in It. But tin* applications for resi­ dence in tlie hall at Oxford have from the first exceeded tlie limited accom­ modations, am) two more lialN have lately been established in Birmingham, another at Manchester and another at Birkenhead, and others are to be start­ ed soou. Furthermore, tlie number of student* In the correspondence courses Is already over 1.500, aud is increasing rapidly. had rather counted on finding a mau with a mop in one hand and a text­ book on political economy iu the other, but was disappointed, for the prevail­ ing maxim is. "One thing at a time.” Although many of the students are married and occasionally bring their wives to Oxford with them, the women have to live elsewhere. What t hey Study. If, as really seems possible, this ex­ periment is going to have a marked effect on the British and American workingman, it becomes interesting to see what it is that they are being taught. The list of fourteen courses Is made up of these branches: Sociology, in which special attention is given to the development of modern society and present social conditions; English con­ stitution and political history, in which stress is laid on the origin ami develop­ ment of English government; English industrial history, covering land laws ami the efforts of the workers to better their conditions; the industrial revolu­ tion. devoted to a consideration of the mechanical inventions and new Indus­ To Begin in St. Louis. Various English labor leaders fell ill with the idea, and the suggestion seems to have come from some of them that it should be carried back to the United States. In consequence, the general secretary of Ruskin Hall, II. B. Lees Smith, and two tralued assistants, will go to St. laruls to establish a Ruskin Hull there, of which Mr. Smith will be principal. They expect to branch out from there until In time every big city in the United States lias a branch of tills unique college. Two prominent English labor leaders -U. W. Boxver­ man, Secretary of the London Society of Compositors, aud James Sexton, Secretary of tlie National Dock 1 .abor­ ers’ Union have gone to the United States to talk with the labor leaders there and prepare the way for their co-operation. Tlie $2t),lMM) required to start the college iu America has al­ ready been guaranteed, aud a good deal of it has been raised mostly from mem­ bers of the correspondence class. It has been said that the British trades unions as a body have been backing the undertaking, but this Is not the case. The reason for making a beginning In St. Louis doubtless is that Walter Vroonian. who was the founder of the college and supplied the first of the money to start it. was a St. Louis man. and was at one time active lu politics and business there. He and his wife, a Baltimorean, who is interested a* much in tlie new movement as her husband, now live iu Oxford, and give practically all their time to Ruskin Hall, of whose council Mr. Vroonian Is President. It Is the Intention to open a hall in ' St. Loui* a* much as possible like that I tn Oxford, and to Itegin at ouee a cor ; rv'|iondence school. As soon as the 1 iuiiu I ht of corresponding students lu any other city seem* to warraut ft a ! hail will be established there also, and I so on until, for all that the originator* i can see to the contrary, every Anteri- ' can workingman from Maine to Cali- [ fornia will have an opportunity to be­ en m* an undergraduate. Col. Manning, the first eloper, had a son, also named Jason. The young man fell iu love with the daughter of one of Ills father’s teamsters, which made Cot Manning furious. Jason eloped with and married the girl. Tc Jason were born a son and a daughter The son loved a young woman and when his father opposed him he eloped with and married her. Jason’s daugli- , ter loved a young lawyer. George Me- 1 Cormick, but her father xvould not al- i low her to receive him. So she eloped with him and they were married. Now Jason’s son, who eloped, has a daugh­ ter, who recently eloped with George . Burns, her mother’s cousin. The per­ son who gives all this information says another elopement Is imminent.—Wash­ ington Post. Glories in His Crimes. The craving for literary laurels does 1 not seem to be confined to any class or condition in life, judging from the | following communication recently re- ! eelved by a prominent publishing firm: "Gentlemen: Dear Sir—I wish to put ■ my life Before the puBlic if 1 can Get Anuf Out of it to give me a start ill 1 tlie world. I led a Crimmel life 21 years Arested 29 times shot at 27 times Bealeased on 9-haBis Coi\;aj Waretits. Broke 13 jnles Convicted 7 i times Broke 1 pen and taken 27 c<,n- vlcts witli me. Waylaid and shot my fatliern law twice married separated. and divossed. If I can get a start in the World Bye nutting my life Before tlie puBlict I will doo so.” Bronze Tablet* iu a Marsh. RUSKtN ITALI. AT OXrOBt>. trial organizations, which changed England into a vast workshop. The co-operative movement aud the relation of co-operation to modem so­ cial ami industrial problems. Trade Unionism. A short introduction into political economy. Principles of Poli­ tics. Intended to give to the student an insight Into the workings of modern political machinery and an understand­ ing of the Constitution aud self govern meat. The Labor Movement. Psychol ogv especially as applied to habit, at tentlou. reasoning, memory, emotion and instinct. Philosophy, based on the needs of an organic society rather than ou the speculation* of pedants. English Literature, especially with reference to essay writing. John Ruskin as the prophet of a new social order. Course for training and lecturing. There aiso are classes in English. French. Ger­ man. mathematics aud logic, a* re­ quired. The first Englishman to enlist in the new movement was the present gen­ eral secretary, 11 H. Lees Smith, who was at that time au Oxford undergrad nate. but ba* since taken hl* degree aud will soon cut a figure in the United Constantino Maes, the eminent Ital­ ian archaeologist, has submitted to his government a memorial in which he [ affirms that 3.000 bronze tables, consti­ tuting the records of ancient Home, | from its foundation to the time of Yes-1 pasiau, are buried in the marsh at Os­ tia. near Rome. He say* that tlie ta­ bles were carried to Ostia after having been rescued from the tire which de­ stroyed the capital in the year 69 A. D. Signor Maes wants the Italian govern­ ment to draiu the marsh in order to re­ cover these invaluable records, and a commission will be appointed to inves­ tigate the matter. Coast Trade Moving Southward. Letters recently written from the Bliimennii district in Southern Brazil, where there are about 50,000 German settlers, describe life there as abso­ lutely patriarchal. There is practically no crime in the community. Every­ body is working hard to develop the natural wealth of the country and the immigrants are bolli well to do and virtuous. Thus far they have got along very well without gas, electricity or telephones. They receive the news of the world only iu foreign papers, they are rarely visited by outsiders and have absolute faith in one another. There is only one prison iu the dis­ trict, anil, though its jailer receives a fair salary, his position is a sinecure. In the past five years there lias been only one inmate of the prison. There are several hotels, lint in most of ttietn there are no locks on the doors and no one dreams of locking his door when this appliance is provided. When gry folk enter the restaurants they find a liberal supply and variety of eata­ bles spread out on the counters. Each helps himself to what lie desires and at the end of his meal deposits the money lie owes at the cashier’s desk. The Germans seem to have created another Arcadia In tlie southern part of Brazil.—New York Sun. NOVEL-WRITING PAID BEST. How Grant Allen Accidentally Stam- bled Into the Literary World. It is an actual fact that the late Grant Allen, whose distinguished ca­ reer as a writer is well known, be­ came a novelist by mere accident—in­ deed. without knowing it. While pur­ suing ids scientific studies lie wrote an article for a magazine upon the impos­ sibility of seeing a ghost. The article was written by way of recreation more than for any other purpose, and for convenience sake and to make the moral clearer lie threw the argument into the narrative form, but without the slightest idea that he xvas writing n story. It was published under the title: "Our Scientific Observations on a Ghost.” Immediately the editor wrote for an­ other "story” of a like character. Be­ ing a Journalist, Mr. Allen accepted an order for anything and sent back a blood-curdling tale about a mummy. Not caring to let the world knoxv that he was trifling with fiction, he veiled the author’s identity under the pen name, "J. Arbuthnot Wilson.” But presently Mr. Wilson had so many or­ ders for tales that he monopolized Mr. Allen's desk and Ills income exceeded that of the scientist, and so Mr. Wil­ son beame Grant Allen and known to all the novel-reading world. Developed by Cultivation. All garden vegetables are merely types improved by long cultivation of wild species. The wild cabbage is com­ mon enough in places by the sea, but Is of no use for food in its wild state. In­ deed. it will take a botanist to tell that it was a cabbage at all. Scotland owes the cabbage to Cromwell’s soldiers. The cauliflower Is but a cultivated im­ provement on the cabbage. It was brought to perfection in Cyprus and was very little known until about a century ago. The parsnip Is another native of this country. You may find It along almost any hedgerow, but it Is small and intensely bitter in Its wild taste. Quebec was originally the 1 natural port of the Atlantic. It dropped down to Salem, to Boston, now to New York, and already New York business tueu are complaining or Norfolk. Charles­ ton. Savannah. Pensacola. New Or- leau* and Galveston. Trade is findiug its level, as the waters of the country debouch to tlie south. From wide Little Nellie Knew Better. areas east and west, and starting al­ Little Nellie wa* learning to read, most from the British-American line, and part of her lesson ran thus: “The the mighty Mississippi gathers trade a* cat has a rat.” ’Huh!” she exclaimed; " she flows to the Gulf. “the man who wrote this book didn’t know much. Cat* don’t have rats; People who can see a woman in the they have kittens." uioou ought to put their imagination* When a new widow wants to do to some practical use. They own un­ something that is opposed to the rules developed gold mine*. •nd traditions, she says that it was The very latest thing in door locks is "her late husband’s request.” the night key. A widow loves her husband •■ ten­ Some people are so disagreeable tliej derly and charitably as a girl loves her feel ashamed when they laugh. •teady. A